Local innovations in Brazil and Spain in the face of global insecurities
The CIDOB Foundation hosted a seminar in which reflections were made on new forms of social intervention in the local sphere in the face of situations of vulnerability and risk that the current global processes of change are generating.
Some fifteen researchers from different Brazilian and Spanish academic institutions met in the Jordi Maragall Hall at the CIDOB Foundation to reflect on the consequences of the global processes of socio-economic transformation in cities and on the responses to the new factors of social risk and insecurity that could be provided from the local sphere. Although the Brazilian and Spanish urban contexts are significantly different, the authors emphasised the common nature of certain problems, such as social exclusion, urban segregation and insecurity, and they highlighted some shared trends in innovation in ways of responding to them.
This international seminar, entitled Local Innovations in the Face of Global Insecurities: The Cases of Brazil and Spain, was co-organised by the CIDOB Foundation, the IBEI (Barcelona Institute of International Studies), the Getúlio Vargas Foundation – Brazilian School of Public Administration and Business and the IGOP (Institute of Government and Public Policies) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Co-ordinated by Ana Ayuso and Carles Ramió, of the Latin America Programme of the CIDOB Foundation, the seminar culminated with the showing of a documentary jointly created by all of the organising institutions. Throughout the documentary, different innovative Brazilian and Spanish projects giving a local response to the problems stemming from globalisation are depicted.